civilized ku # 2607-08 ~ obsession + jazz

Rite Aid ~ North Creek, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Jazz quartet - BarVino ~ North Creek, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenWednesday evening, the wife and I went down the road a bit to the nice little hamlet of North Creek to fetch some post-surgery meds and have dinner.

FYI, North Creek is a small-scale version of Lake Placid inasmuch as it is a ski mountain (Gore Mountain) village. However, unlike Lake Placid which is dressed up to the nines, North Creek is authentically early 20th Century Adirondack - old store fronts which, with few exceptions, house mom and pop businesses. The most obvious exceptions are a thriving upscale inn/hotel and a now-defunct attempt at introducing a modern 5 store strip shopping center, one just like you'd find in suburban New Jersey.

In any event, while the wife was in Rite Aid, I became utterly fascinated by the front of the store and the way in which the light was falling upon it. The cumulative visual effect was that of a Hopper painting. Consequently, I made quite a number of pictures of the store front. In fact, more pictures than I have made of any non-moving/living referent in a very long time.

The one presented here is the one which I believe captures the essence of what I saw. Nevertheless, upon my return home this weekend, I'll process some of the other pictures and post them so you can be the judge of which one is "best".

BTW, dinner was outstanding and accompanied by live jazz music.